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Courses

CHI 2007 is offering a variety of courses from 1.5 to 6 hours, Sunday through Thursday 29 April - 3 May, 2007. There are a wide variety of courses for members of all our CHI communities.

Since registration is limited for each course, please only sign up for the course(s) that you will definitely attend for its entirety. Each registrant is limited to attending 5 course units (1 unit = 90-minute block)! This is not 5 courses, but 5 course units. Please note the number of units per course below.

There is a US$25 charge for materials per course. Course material will be distributed at the conference and will serve as your "ticket" for the session.

Course Program

Course Title (# of units) Date/Time Info
C01. Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction and Overview (2 units)
Keith A. Butler, Robert J.K. Jacob, David Kieras
Sunday 18:00-21:30 PDF
C02. An Introduction to Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2 units)
Gary M. Olson and Jim Herbsleb
Sunday 18:00-21:30 PDF
C03. HCI History: Trajectories into the Future (1 unit)
Jonathan Grudin
Sunday 18:00-19:30 PDF
C04. Drawing Ideas: Visualization and Design Sketching (2 units)
Mark Baskinger and William Bardel
Sunday 18:00-21:30 PDF
C05. Personal Information Management in Theory and Practice (3 units)
William Jones and Jacek Gwizdka
Monday 11:30-18:00 PDF
C06. Usability and Product Development (3 units)
Jon Meads
Monday 11:30-18:00 PDF
C07. Collaborative Behavior and Supporting Technogies (2 units)
Steven Poltrock, Jonathan Grudin
Monday 11:30-16:00 PDF
C08. Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals (1 unit)
Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin
Monday 16:30-18:00 PDF
C09. How to Collect Field Data and Produce a Tested Design in 1-8 Weeks (1 unit)
Karen Holtzblatt
Monday 11:30-13:00 PDF
C10. Top Field Interview Mistakes: Recognizing and Preventing Them (1 unit)
Karen Holtzblatt
Monday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C11. After the Interviews: Making Sense of Fieldwork Data (1 unit)
Sara Bly
Monday 16:30-18:00 PDF
C12. Usability Process Improvement - ISO Standards (1 unit)
Nigel Bevan
Monday 11:30-13:00 PDF
C13. An Introduction to Human-Robot Interaction Design and Evaluation (2 units)
Jean Scholtz
Monday 14:30-18:00 PDF
C14. Card Sorting and Cluster Analysis for Information Architecture Design (4 units)
Jianming Dong,Janice James, Carol Righi, Larry Wood
Tuesday 9:00-18:00 PDF
C15. Understanding Users in Context: An In-depth Introduction to Fieldwork (4 units)
Susan Dray and David Siegel
Tuesday 9:00-18:00 PDF
C16. Design of Spatial Applications (2 units)
Matthew Hockenberry
Tuesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C17. An Introduction to Designing for the Scent of Information (1 unit)
Jared Spool
Tuesday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C18. Designing for the Scent of Information: Advanced Concepts (1 unit)
Jared Spool
Tuesday 16:30-18:00 PDF
C19. Information Foraging Theory (2 units)
Peter Pirolli
Tuesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C20. Building Affinity Diagrams to Reveal User Needs and Engage Developers (2 units)
Shelley Wood
Tuesday 14:30-18:00 PDF
C21. Web Usability for Assistive Technology (2 units)
Caroline Boyden and Lucy Greco
Tuesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C22. Rapid Prototyping and Evaluation with Web Mashups (2 units)
Michael Twidale and Richard Urban
Tuesday 14:30-18:00 PDF
C23. Analyzing Qualitative Data from Field Studies (4 units)
David A. Siegel
Wednesday 9:00-18:00 PDF
C24. Understanding Mobile Interaction Design (2 units)
Matt Jones and Gary Marsden
Wednesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C25. Doing Mobile Interaction Design (2 units)
Matt Jones and Gary Marsden
Wednesday 14:30-18:00 PDF
C26. Faceted Metadata for Information Architecture and Search (2 units)
Marti Hearst and Preston Smalley
Wednesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C27. Empirical Research Methods for Human Computer Interaction (2 units)
Scott MacKenzie
Wednesday 14:30-18:00 PDF
C28. Ajax - Design and Usability (2 units)
William Hudson
Wednesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C29. How to Build Rich Personas from Field Data (1 unit)
Karen Holtzblatt
Wednesday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C30. Usability Testing: Creating Good Test Tasks (1 unit)
Rolf Molich
Wednesday 16:30-18:00 PDF
C31. Expert Reviews - for Experts (2 units)
Rolf Molich
Wednesday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C32. Avoiding "We Can't Change THAT!": An introduction to Usability and Software Architecture (1 unit)
Bonnie E. John, Len Bass, & Elspeth Golden
Wednesday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C33. Avoiding "We Can't Change THAT Either!": Usability-Supporting Architectural Patterns (1 unit)
Bonnie E. John, Len Bass, & Elspeth Golden
Wednesday 16:30-18:00 PDF
C34. The Persona Lifecycle (3 units)
Tamara Adlin, John Pruitt, and Jonathan Grudin
Thursday 9:00-16:00 PDF
C35. Principles of Interaction Design (2 units)
Shane Morris
Thursday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C36. Interaction Design Studio (1 unit)
Shane Morris
Thursday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C37. The Top 5 Universal Design Problems and Ways to Solve Them (2 units)
Ann Chadwick-Dias, Marguerite Bergel, & Tom Tullis
Thursday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C38. Usability Testing: Usable Communciation Techniques (1 unit)
Rolf Molich
Thursday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C39. Advanced Data Collection and Analysis Tools for HCI Research and Usability Testing (2 units)
Lucas P.J.J. Noldus
Thursday 9:00-13:00 PDF
C40. Ensuring the Usability of Systems that Adapt to Their Users (1 unit)
Anthony Jameson
Thursday 14:30-16:00 PDF
C41. PART 1: Keeping the Web in Web 2.0: An HCI Approach to Designing Web Applications (1 unit)
Steffen Meschkat and Josh Mittleman
Thursday 9:00-10:30 PDF
C42. PART 2: Keeping the Web in Web 2.0: An HCI Approach to Designing Web Applications (1 unit)
Steffen Meschkat and Josh Mittleman
Thursday 11:30-13:00 PDF